The impacts of ocean fine-scale whirls on climate and ecosystems

Project Information

WHIRLS

Grant agreement ID: 101118693

DOI

10.3030/101118693

EC signature date 13 December 2023

Start date 1 June 2024

End date 31 May 2030

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 11 855 066,00

EU contribution

€ 11 855 066,00

Coordinated by

HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)
Germany

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Drafting of Data Management plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

A Lagrangian perspective reveals the carbon and oxygen budget of an oceanic eddy

Author(s): Baudena, Alberto; Laxenaire, Rémi; Catalano, Camille; Ioannou, Artemis; Leymarie, Edouard; Picheral, Marc; Poteau, Antoine; Speich, Sabrina; Stemmann, Lars; Kiko, Rainer
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.8386573

Observed regimes of submesoscale dynamics in the Southern Ocean seasonal ice zone

Author(s): Channing J. Prend, Sebastiaan Swart, Andrew L. Stewart, Marcel D. du Plessis, Georgy E. Manucharyan, Andrew F. Thompson
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-63775-7

From Synoptic to Submesoscale: Understanding Sensible Heat Flux Variability in the Southern Ocean

Author(s): Johan M. Edholm, Marcel D. du Plessis, Louise C. Biddle, Sarah T. Gille, Matthew R. Mazloff, Hanna S. Rosenthal, Sebastiaan Swart
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9275
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024JC022292

Geophysical Research Letteres

Author(s): Solange Coadou-Chaventon; Sebastiaan Swart; Guillaume Novelli; Sabrina Speich
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.22541/ESSOAR.173924051.16465869/V1

Mesoscale dynamics and transport in the North Brazil Current as revealed by the EUREC4A-OA experiment

Author(s): Yan Barabinot, Sabrina Speich, Xavier Carton, Pierre L'Hégaret, Corentin Subirade, Rémi Laxenaire, Johannes Karstensen
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 21, 2025, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/OS-21-1849-2025

Observing system requirements for measuring high-frequency air–sea fluxes in the Southern Ocean

Author(s): Channing J. Prend; Marcel D. du Plessis; Matthew R. Mazloff; Lovisa Sunnercrantz; Sebastiaan Swart; Sarah T. Gille
Published in: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2025, ISSN 2325-1026
Publisher: University of California Press
DOI: 10.1525/ELEMENTA.2024.00061

Resolving Sharper Fronts of the Agulhas Current Retroflection Using SWOT Altimetry

Author(s): S. Coadou‐Chaventon, S. Swart, G. Novelli, S. Speich
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 52, 2025, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025GL115203

On the cyclogeostrophy of mesoscale eddies as revealed by in situ observations

Author(s): Yan Barabinot, Sabrina Speich, Xavier Carton
Published in: Ocean Dynamics, Issue 75, 2025, ISSN 1616-7341
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10236-025-01747-7

Analysis of Unforced Symmetric Instability in Mesoscale Eddies using In situ Observations

Author(s): Yan Barabinot, Christian Buckingham, Sabrina Speich, Xavier Carton
Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2025, ISSN 0022-3670
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-24-0241.1

A Lagrangian perspective reveals the carbon and oxygen budget of an oceanic eddy

Author(s): Alberto Baudena, Rémi Laxenaire, Camille Catalano, Artemis Ioannou, Edouard Leymarie, Marc Picheral, Antoine Poteau, Sabrina Speich, Lars Stemmann, Rainer Kiko
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02262-9

Uncrewed surface vehicles in the Global Ocean Observing System: a new frontier for observing and monitoring at the air-sea interface

Author(s): Ruth G. Patterson; Ruth G. Patterson; Meghan F. Cronin; Sebastiaan Swart; Sebastiaan Swart; Joana Beja; Johan M. Edholm; Jason McKenna; Jason McKenna; Jaime B. Palter; Alex Parker; Alex Parker; Charles I. Addey; Wieter Boone; Paban Bhuyan; Justin J. H. Buck; Eugene F. Burger; James Burris; Lionel Camus; Brad de Young; Marcel du Plessis; Mike Flanigan; Gregory R. Foltz; Sarah T. Gille; Laurent Grare; Jeff E. Hansen; Lars Robert Hole; Makio C. Honda; Verena Hormann; Catherine Kohlman; Naoko Kosaka; Carey Kuhn; Luc Lenain; Lev Looney; Lev Looney; Andreas Marouchos; Elizabeth K. McGeorge; Elizabeth K. McGeorge; Clive R. McMahon; Satoshi Mitarai; Calvin Mordy; Akira Nagano; Sarah-Anne Nicholson; Sarah Nickford; Kevin M. O’Brien; Kevin M. O’Brien; David Peddie; Leandro Ponsoni; Virginie Ramasco; Nick Rozenauers; Elizabeth Siddle; Cheyenne Stienbarger; Adrienne J. Sutton; Noriko Tada; Jim Thomson; Iwao Ueki; Lisan Yu; Chidong Zhang; Dongxiao Zhang; Dongxiao Zhang
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2025, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2025.1523585

Insights into mesoscale eddy dynamics: a three-dimensional perspective on potential density anomalies

Author(s): Yan Barabinot, Sabrina Speich, Xavier Carton
Published in: Ocean Science, Issue 21, 2025, ISSN 1812-0792
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/OS-21-2527-2025

Other (3)

Data Management Plan

Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14359661

WHIRLS Research Data Policy

Author(s): Tetzlaff, Klaus and the WHIRLS Operational Management Committee
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.3030/101118693

Simulated surface normalised relative vorticity in INALT60 (Animation)

Author(s): Franziska U. Schwarzkopf
Published in: 2025
Publisher: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
DOI: 10.3289/INALT60_L120_KRS0020